Rachel/tikva
@tikva82.bsky.social
Disability and public health geek. Guide dog handler. Queering up your disability rights and cripping your queer pride. Basically a very sweary golden retriever. Go Sox! She/her/hers. Not actually born in '82.
Fascinating thread. Thanks, @ericmgarcia.bsky.social!
Sitting in the Dirksen hearing room ahead of RFK Jr.'s testimony to the Senate HELP Committee about the HHS budget. Follow along
May 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Fascinating thread. Thanks, @ericmgarcia.bsky.social!
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I'm a nobody & nothing account (good actually) but I'm begging folks who aren't up on disability justice (bc who can be up on EVERYTHING all the time?) to catch up on the ramping up of eugenics. Transphobia, race, misogyny, disability, class, fatphobia: it's ALL connected
April 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I'm a nobody & nothing account (good actually) but I'm begging folks who aren't up on disability justice (bc who can be up on EVERYTHING all the time?) to catch up on the ramping up of eugenics. Transphobia, race, misogyny, disability, class, fatphobia: it's ALL connected
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Was just having this discussion on how not every form of rebellion needs every person to be boots on the ground.
You need community organizers, people making articles, those that provide safety nets.
Revolution also needs to be inclusive
You need community organizers, people making articles, those that provide safety nets.
Revolution also needs to be inclusive
“…no amount of posting or passive info consumption is going to substitute the hard, unsexy work of organizing”
I would argue that sick & disabled folks have used social media to organize and mobilize. Some of us can’t protest in the streets or meet in person but we made a difference
I would argue that sick & disabled folks have used social media to organize and mobilize. Some of us can’t protest in the streets or meet in person but we made a difference
i wrote something about This Place for @404media.co. please read it, and then log off. 💗
February 7, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Was just having this discussion on how not every form of rebellion needs every person to be boots on the ground.
You need community organizers, people making articles, those that provide safety nets.
Revolution also needs to be inclusive
You need community organizers, people making articles, those that provide safety nets.
Revolution also needs to be inclusive
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I love we're doing online stuff isn't activism discourse for the millionth time. Hell, the authors comments in the replies are seriously yikes but hey, it's fine because they have many disabled friends. *eyeroll* Yeah, I also have thoughts on how IRL protests are performative. Another time.
February 7, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I love we're doing online stuff isn't activism discourse for the millionth time. Hell, the authors comments in the replies are seriously yikes but hey, it's fine because they have many disabled friends. *eyeroll* Yeah, I also have thoughts on how IRL protests are performative. Another time.
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i nobody ever filibusters with a tingler during my lifetime i am going to be furious
February 7, 2025 at 12:21 AM
i nobody ever filibusters with a tingler during my lifetime i am going to be furious
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Honestly kind of surprised he called it DOGE and not FedX.
February 6, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Honestly kind of surprised he called it DOGE and not FedX.
It's National Girls and Women in Sports Day, which I want to remind you is for ALL WOMEN.
Except maybe TERFs.
Except maybe TERFs.
February 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
It's National Girls and Women in Sports Day, which I want to remind you is for ALL WOMEN.
Except maybe TERFs.
Except maybe TERFs.
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Don't forget to include disabled people in your resistance. The more revolutionary you become, the more likely you'll join the disability community. To fight back and get out alive is almost always to become disabled in some way. Disabled people know how to adapt and fight continuously. You need us.
February 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Don't forget to include disabled people in your resistance. The more revolutionary you become, the more likely you'll join the disability community. To fight back and get out alive is almost always to become disabled in some way. Disabled people know how to adapt and fight continuously. You need us.
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Hi, I am @motherjones.com' disability reporter. In the following weeks, I am very interested in hearing how tariff nonsense impacts getting your meds and medical equipment. My email to get in touch is jmetraux@motherjones.com. Reposts appreciated.
February 2, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Hi, I am @motherjones.com' disability reporter. In the following weeks, I am very interested in hearing how tariff nonsense impacts getting your meds and medical equipment. My email to get in touch is jmetraux@motherjones.com. Reposts appreciated.
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hard to strike the right tone in work emails lately. "I hope you and yours are having moderate success dissociating from All This Fuckshit. please invoice us by Friday if we still have a society"
February 2, 2025 at 8:40 PM
hard to strike the right tone in work emails lately. "I hope you and yours are having moderate success dissociating from All This Fuckshit. please invoice us by Friday if we still have a society"
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Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.
We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
November 12, 2024 at 1:22 AM
Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.
We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
Yes, hello, ordering one right now.
Support trans folks and snag yourself a reprint of the 2024 Boston Dyke March T-shirt!
(updated post with the link fixed)
(updated post with the link fixed)
Hello friends!
Given these uncertain times, we’ve decided to reprint our 2024 t-shirt! We’ll be donating all proceeds to organizations supporting trans folks in Massachusetts.
Pre-order until Feb 28th:
bostondykemarch.square.site/product/pre-...
Given these uncertain times, we’ve decided to reprint our 2024 t-shirt! We’ll be donating all proceeds to organizations supporting trans folks in Massachusetts.
Pre-order until Feb 28th:
bostondykemarch.square.site/product/pre-...
February 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Yes, hello, ordering one right now.
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With all the bullshit coming soon, letting rodents predict the weather is going to seem data-driven in comparison.
February 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM
With all the bullshit coming soon, letting rodents predict the weather is going to seem data-driven in comparison.
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I am having trouble regulating my moods because everything is simultaneously so terrifying and so stupid.
February 1, 2025 at 3:25 AM
I am having trouble regulating my moods because everything is simultaneously so terrifying and so stupid.
Today some rando online told me something I had done wasn't "becoming". Hi, welcome to me.
So. What am I becoming? Wrong answers only.
So. What am I becoming? Wrong answers only.
January 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Today some rando online told me something I had done wasn't "becoming". Hi, welcome to me.
So. What am I becoming? Wrong answers only.
So. What am I becoming? Wrong answers only.
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BREAKING: Senator Ron Wyden says his staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following the Trump funding freeze.
January 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
BREAKING: Senator Ron Wyden says his staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following the Trump funding freeze.
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If you do the Tomahawk Chop, you're a bigot. It's not a debate. You're a racist person doing a racist thing and you're very excited about it. Also I hope your car gets a flat tire.
January 27, 2025 at 12:19 AM
If you do the Tomahawk Chop, you're a bigot. It's not a debate. You're a racist person doing a racist thing and you're very excited about it. Also I hope your car gets a flat tire.
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George Lucas is somewhere smoking a big fat blunt and muttering, “oh right, NOW trade wars are interesting, huh”
January 27, 2025 at 12:52 AM
George Lucas is somewhere smoking a big fat blunt and muttering, “oh right, NOW trade wars are interesting, huh”
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And because it's NIH, we're talking stuff actually being used currently in medicine as well as research. So research will be set back years (and in cases decades) and *current* health care will be hit.
Liquid Nitrogen isn't available to purchase right now (backorders only) because of the science and health freeze. "Without LN2, ALL of our Child Cord Blood used for specialized STEM replacements for birth defects will go bad within 10 days or less... -and infant mortality rate will skyrocket."
January 25, 2025 at 2:36 AM
And because it's NIH, we're talking stuff actually being used currently in medicine as well as research. So research will be set back years (and in cases decades) and *current* health care will be hit.